Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is the photographic documentation for the written texts about three ethnic groups in northern Brazil: the Kampa (in Acre state), the Marubo (Amazonas state), and the Yanomami (Amazonas and Roraima states). The author is the Franco-Italian [...]

This study in aesthetic anthropology by Regina Polo Müller revolves around the following topics: 1. Supports and techniques in drawing: artistic style; 2. Techniques and style in drawing; 3. “Tayngava”: pattern, image, replica of the human form [...]

This is a book by Erich Freundt on featherware, face painting, memorial services, hunting scenes, ceramics, and carved wooden dolls of three ethnic groups from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, which he had visited between 1939 and 1942. The [...]

The exhibition Artes indígenas was held in São Paulo in 2000 as one of the events commemorating 500 years since the discovery of Brazil by Europeans. The catalogue includes the text by Lúcia Hussak van Velthen, one of the exhibition curators, [...]

Anthropologist Berta G. Ribeiro, along with museologist Adalgiza Bonfim d´Eça, a specialist in indexation systems, compiled this enormous dictionary of indigenous crafts in Brazil. The publication contains the following chapters: 1. Ceramics; 2. [...]

In this critical bibliography, German ethnologist Herbert Baldüs compiles 1,785 entries on works related to indigenous themes in Brazil, works that were published from the mid-16th century to the early fifties of the 20th century. Baldüs [...]

This text by Gastão Cruls is outlined as follows: The Visual Arts, Basic Elements and Development; Instruments and Material; Body Adornments; Featherwork; Auxiliary Decoration Elements; Braids and Weaves; Works with Strings of Beads; Artifacts Made [...]

This essay by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro was published in the História geral da arte no Brasil. The essay includes the following subjects: 1. Introductions: The Indians. Art genres (art on stone, weavings, fabrics, ceramics, and music). [...]

This essay by anthropologist Jussara Gomes Grüber forms part of an anthology entitled Grafismo indígena. Estudos de antropologia estética coordinated by Lux Vidal. Its aim is to shed light on the range of graphic representations found in different [...]